Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 December 18

= December 18 =

How many redirect
Wikipedia has now reached over 3.5 million articles - see Main_Page. I'd like to know how many of those articles are redirects and if none are counted in that total(unlikely), then how many redirect pages exist. Regards, SunCreator (talk) 12:40, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * That number does not include redirects. See Special:Statistics. The total number of redirects is difficult to compute as some are double redirects, some redirect to a redlink, etc, etc. However, there are certainly far more redirects than articles. See Category:All redirect categories. Maybe someone else here will be able to suggest a definitive number.--Shantavira|feed me 14:09, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * It's not a very interesting question, really. Lots of redirects are for alternative capitalization and boring things like that. Looie496 (talk) 18:57, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Oi! We don't get to decide what others find interesting.  Or boring, for that matter.  --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   19:34, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * According to http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm there were 4.5 million redirects in September. I'm not sure whether it 's only for redirects in mainspace. PrimeHunter (talk) 03:38, 20 December 2010 (UTC)